12 September 2012: Georgia prison protests
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Tbilisi that night, while friends and relatives of those imprisoned headed to the prison. Protests also erupted in other cities like Batumi, Gori, Katisi and Poti.
The government quickly issued an apology, and the interior and penitentiary ministers resigned, but protests continued, despite the Georgian Dream opposition movement urging protests to stop. The following month, the ruling party lost the election to Georgian Dream, who had agreed to improve the penal system. By the following year, 48 mostly low-ranking prison officials had been prosecuted, and a mass amnesty released half of the country's 24,000 prisoners.
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On This Day in Working Class History — 12 September 2012: Georgia prison protests. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
On this day in work in class history, the 12th of September. As a content note, this episode contains mention of sexual violence. On the 12th of September 2012, TV channels Broadcast Video shying systemic torture and sexual assault of inmates in the Gildani Prison Number 8 in Tbilisi, Georgia, resulting in mass protests. Thousands of people took to the streets of Tbilisi that night, while friends and relatives of those imprisoned headed to the prison. Protests also erupted in other cities like Batumi, Gory, Kateezi and Poti. The government quickly issued an apology and the interior and penitentiary ministers resigned. But protests continued, despite the Georgian Dream opposition movement urging protests to stop. The following month, the ruling party lost the election, to Georgian Dream, who had agreed
to improve the penal system. By the following year, 48 mostly low ranking prison officials had been prosecuted, and a mass amnesty released half of the country's 24,000 prisoners. The sources, maps and all about anniversaries each day check out the on this day section of our stories at atstories.workinclosshistory.com. And if you value our work, support us at patreon.com slash work and class history. Link's in the show notes. The music by the card d'Area. See you tomorrow.
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